bui

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why you stopped reading in c/books@lemmy.ml
[–] bui@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing. I only got back into reading in the past year. I think I stopped because I was trying to read books that I thought I should enjoy. So finding one or more of the education, evolution or escape motivations has helped.

I've never seen this YouTube channel before but I liked this video so much that I subscribed. So thanks for that too.

How do you decide when to give up on a book? in c/books@lemmy.ml
[–] bui@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

If I'm reading a book, I normally give it a couple of chapters. If I don't like the style of writing or the story isn't engaging, it's very unlikely that it will get better later on.

If I'm listening to an audiobook, I give it a lot longer because I'm usually doing something else while listening and there's less effort required to progress.

A recent exception is The Power. I read that until 49% because it was okay. Somewhat interesting but I just didn't care about the characters and I hated the writing style. I thought I should like it more because it was a bestseller and turned into a TV show. I got around to reading reviews which confirmed that it wasn't just me who didn't get it and I'm so glad I stopped. I should've dropped it after two chapters.

Missing the All About Android podcast? Check out Android Faithful in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] bui@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was massively disappointed. I hope they can get Jason on as a guest.

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Missing the All About Android podcast? Check out Android Faithful (feeds.acast.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bui@lemm.ee to c/android@lemdro.id
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I didn't know Ron, Huyen and Mishaal had kicked off a new show last week. I'm glad they did. Has a completely different vibe to the others I've tried. I gave up on Android Central. Material podcast wasn't my thing. I still listen to Android Police because of Daniel and Ara. I even gave Tech News Weekly a shot because Jason is a great host.

[Facebook federation megathread] Downvote this post if you want lemm.ee to federate with Threads. (Updated) in c/meta@lemm.ee
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Question for subreddit moderators (lemm.ee)
 

I'm pretty happy with the experience on Lemmy so far as I joined even before the blackouts started happening. The trigger was the dumpster fire of an AMA with the CEO. I tried kbin first because it's supposed to be newer and more interoperable with other federated platforms but I found the instance I was on wouldn't properly load content from Lemmy and I couldn't find a kbin Android app. So I'll be here for the time being.

During the shitstorm on Twitter and the exodus to Mastodon, I tried out Mastodon and felt that it was a similarly welcoming experience. But I kept reading comments on Reddit that the Fediverse was too complicated and it was too hard to find people to follow because you needed their username as well as their instance to find them. I hope people have realised that it's not that much harder during this current Reddit shitshow.

Everyone understands that Reddit/Lemmy/kbin is built on community, and the growth of this community has been fostered by moderators, not Reddit itself. So my question to any subreddit moderators is: Is there something about the Fediverse that would prevent you from moving your community off Reddit? It seems pretty clear that people will try Reddit alternatives even before their favourite subreddits have moved. Users are engaged with the communities that you have built and loyal to the 3rd party app developers and we don't give a fuck about Reddit as an organisation.

Discussion open to everyone, but curious to know if any moderators are also using Lemmy.